Wadette Bradford was born on July 24th at John Andrews Hospital in Tuskegee, Alabama. She is the daughter of Wade Bradford, a World War II Veteran admitted into the first class of veterinary medicine at Tuskegee Institute and Donna Bradford, a neurodiagnostic technologist. As a teen in high school she took automotive mechanics, film and media production as well as her college preparatory classes. She was awarded a full academic scholarship at Alabama A&M University to study food science and technology where she minored in chemistry and business. She graduated and pursued per post graduate studies at the University of Alabama Huntsville while working in the automotive industry. Wadette decided to take acting lessons and will one day produce episodic style commercials for her automotive dealerships. She earned two degrees, worked in the automotive industry and was a college professor before finally making her way into the films.